>Great for cleansing flights are the Imirie Shims sold by Brushy Mountain Bee >Farm. You put one in between the bottom supers in the good weather to save >the bees time from having to crawl down thru the brood chamber to get >outside. In the winter you move it up on top of your top super (under the >inner cover) for ventilation. It also provides for winter cleansing flights >on a nice day. > >You really can easily make them yourself. They are simply four pieces of wood >3/4" square fitted together with an entrance cut into the front piece about >the size of your smallest entrance in a winter reducer. Great also for >releasing moisture in the winter. Just be sure to push the top cover as far >forward as it will go to give your girls some exit room. > >Al Needham Won't they muck up the bee space,though? The bees will fill the space up with comb? Bruce :) Bruce Laidlaw Literacy Teacher & Beekeeper East Sydney Campus Sydney Institute of Technology Australia 2010 http://pip.com.au/~abestuds